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Remember all the discussion about leakers in this thread?  Well, they got one last week.

 

But, and you'll get a kick out of this, it's not exactly who you think it is.  Maybe that's why Trump & Co aren't blowing up about it.


 

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Treasury Official Accused of Leaks Had Bureaucratic Complaints About Another Unit

 

The employee accused of the leaks—Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a senior adviser at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN—is a supporter of President Trump who believed, along with some colleagues, that another Treasury unit was mishandling sensitive data, according to people familiar with the matter.

 

Ms. Edwards was charged with giving a reporter at BuzzFeed News—which isn’t named in the complaint but is identifiable from details provided—information about dozens of transactions that financial institutions flagged as suspicious. Many were related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

 

According to the charging papers, Ms. Edwards collected these “suspicious activity reports,” or SARs, on a flashdrive, and over the past year exchanged hundreds of messages with a reporter, who is identifiable as BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold. When confronted by agents, Ms. Edwards admitted to photographing the reports and sending them to the journalist through an encrypted app, the charging document said.

 

A lawyer for Ms. Edwards didn’t respond to requests for comment.

 

The complaint doesn’t suggest what motivated Ms. Edwards, beyond saying she told investigators she was a “whistleblower” who gave Mr. Leopold the documents for “record keeping.”

 

Ms. Edwards, as well as a supervisor identified in court papers as a “co-conspirator,” regularly shared social-media posts critical of liberals and sympathetic to Mr. Trump. Ms. Edwards, for example, “liked” a comment calling former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan, a vocal Trump critic, a “paid political hack.” She said in another post the “false allegations” of sexual misconduct against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh set a worrisome precedent.

 

The alleged co-conspirator retweeted a post describing Hillary Clinton as a liar, and retweeted other messages from women explaining why they didn’t vote for Mrs. Clinton in 2016. That official wasn’t named in the charging documents, but people familiar with the matter said he is Kip Brailey, FinCEN’s associate director for intelligence.

 

 

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